01-11-2024 09:40
I am having nightmare experience with my Crown Communications O2 mobile contract that should have ended 21st October 2024.
October 2021 I was phoned by Crown Communications and convinced to have a O2 mobile contract with them.
I have paperwork for the 36 month contract starting October 2021 with O2.
I was phoned October 2023 and asked if I wanted to replace the mobile or pay less for contract.
I presume that was the 36 month contract I had which started October 2021, I opted to pay less and keep same mobile.
I was not sent any different paperwork October 2023 and never signed anything to say I was extending contract I thought it still ended 21st October 2024.
May 2024 I had letter from O2 which made me realise I had a small business contract and I was paying over £40 a month.
The monthly cost had drastically increased.
I tried and failed to contact Crown Communications so I contacted O2.
I went through complaints procedure about the high monthly cost but got no where.
No explanation, nothing to explain the high monthly cost when I was not even paying for a mobile phone.
I decided I was stuck, trapped until 21st October 2024 when the 36 month contract ended then I would try to change my network provider therefore pay half the monthly cost with a new mobile included.
I was upset when I got my PUK CODE 31st October 2024 to find out O2 want over £600 to let me escape from O2 and Crown Communications.
I thought the contract ended 21st October 2024 so no payment would be needed. £600 is ridiculous when I do not even have a mobile phone with either with O2 or Crown Communications that is worth anywhere near that.
I would have thought I would have paid off the mobile I got October 2021 after three years it was only a Samsung A90.
I spoke O2 then to someone from Crown Communications Thursday morning 31st October 2024, explained, he sounded helpful said he would ring later that morning, nobody called me back.
Crown Communications seem impossible to communicate with and O2 do not seem to be able to help.
I need this sorted over £40 a month is totally ridiculous when for half that cost I can have a contract which includes a mobile with other networks.
I am totally stressed and upset by this situation.
I have no paperwork from Crown Communications since 2021.
I have no idea what my text, call, data allowance is.
I have worked 30 years for NHS giving physiotherapy to the elderly I am not and never have been a small business.
I need to escape from Crown Communications and O2 asap over £40 a month is totally unacceptable and nobody thinks £600 to escape is reasonable, it is totally unreasonable when I am not even paying off cost of a mobile.
15-11-2024 08:36
One interesting angle here is whether your contract is with O2 or Crown. In the business-to-business space, many resellers provide their own billing & CS, and effectively become an MVNO to the host operator - but the clue is that all paperwork & billing is clearly from the reseller.